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All right. So good afternoon and welcome. Today were going to talk about cold war era Science Education films, in particular ones that were made for tv and the classroom. Now, weve been talking about classroom films before. Really to do any kind of history of classroom films you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields. So i will be quoting and referencing and pulling together work that ive done and other historians of science, film studies people, Communication Studies scholars. Ev...

Good morning, i am the executive Vice President of the u. S. Chamber of commerce, in charge of international affairs. On behalf of the u. S. Chamber of delighted toare host the u. S. Secretary of state for exiting the European Union, david davis, give him a round of applause. I know, secretary davis this is your first visit back to washington in some time. It is an interesting time on both sides of the atlantic. Here we have our unique set of interesting and complex challenges which will not be ...

Our cities tour visits tacoma, washington, to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For six years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. You can read more at cspan. Org citiestour. Years before the arrival of the Transcontinental Railroad, tacoma was not dissimilar from most of the other small communities around puget sound, and really in the Pacific Northwest. The population presence was predominantly native american. B...

[applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit a new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. Then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [laughter] stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynote speaker. Pa...

Follows the release of the white paper from his Firm Yesterday on Procter Gamble in which they have a 3. 5 billion stake. Lets see if we had set up for what appears to be a lower open at this point. The broader averages down ever so slightly. Things were mixed to a certain extent some what mixed action there as for euro zone indices, they have been done and you can see again mixed because i like to add germanys dax is up ever so slightly the ten year note yield has been the story for the entire ...

Health Insurance Market for 2018. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our five witnesses. Welcome to you. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. To begin with, we ought not to take for granted the three hearings this committee has had over the last ten days. For seven years hardly a civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the Affordable Care act. It was trumpcare vers...

We agreed to plan to work out an agreement to protect our nation streamers from deportation. We insisted the bipartisan dream act, the one introduced would be the basis for the protection and we would have Border Security measures that do not include building a wall as we go forward. We also urge the president to make permanent the cost sharing reduction payments under the Affordable Care act. Earlier myself and chairs of the tri caucus and the congressional black caucus. [inaudible] , we had a ...

Secretary ben carson, i want to talk about your job at hud, but your other job is dr. Ben carson. Why did you decide to pursue a career in medicine . Dr. Carson you used to hear stories about doctors, and they seem to be the most noble places people on the earth. I said, thats what i want to do. Ien i was eight years old, decided that was the path i would take. Obviously, it changed. I went from there to wanting to be a psychiatrist. But then, when i got into medical school, i said, what are you...

Welcome to the annual Supreme Court preview. Im karis, Vice President of policy and programs at acs. Most of you likely know this is a National Network of lawyers, law students, judges and policymakers who believe that the law should be enforced to improve peoples lives. Here we are again. After a Supreme Court term that many felt was lackluster despite the delayed addition of the knife justice to the bench, we are looking at an upcoming term that promises the highstakes that we had grown accust...

Welcome to concord, New Hampshire, on booktv. Located about 70 miles north of boston, it has a population of about 42,000. Settled in 1725, this capital city is home to the oldest statehouse in the country and has the largest state legislature in the nation with 400 members. It was also home to franklin pierce, the 14th president of the United States, and christa mcauliffe, the teacher who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle challenger disaster. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the ne...